cerebro

Learned borrowing from Latin cerebrum.

• Rhymes: -ɛbɾo
• Hyphenation: ce‧re‧bro

cerebro m (plural cerebros)

1. (anatomy) cerebrum

cerebro (plural cerebri)

1. (anatomy) brain

cerebro (plural cerebros)

1. (anatomy) brain

Probably an early borrowing from Latin cerebrum (“brain, skull”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂s- (“head”). Cf. the related cervello, which was inherited from a diminutive of the Latin word.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.re.bro/, (poetic) /t͡ʃeˈrɛ.bro/
• Rhymes: -ɛrebro, (poetic) -ɛbro
• Hyphenation: cè‧re‧bro, (poetic) ce‧rè‧bro

cerebro m (plural cerebri)

1. (archaic, poetic) brain

   Synonym: cervello

2. (entomology) the brain of an insect

• cerebrale
• cervello

• cerebro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Cerbero, bercerò, cerbero

cerebrō

1. dative/ablative singular of cerebrum

• celebro (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish cerebro, an early borrowing from Latin cerebrum (“brain, skull”) (although influenced by the popular or Vulgar Latin pronunciation, with stress on the second syllable, in contrast to Portuguese cérebro; the variant celebro was the result of dissimilation),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂s- (“head”). In Old Spanish meollos was also used to refer to the brain.

• IPA^(key): /θeˈɾebɾo/ [θeˈɾe.β̞ɾo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈɾebɾo/ [seˈɾe.β̞ɾo] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ebɾo
• Syllabification: ce‧re‧bro

cerebro m (plural cerebros)

1. (anatomy) brain
2. nerd

   Synonyms: ñoño, empollón, friki, mateo (Chile), nerdo

• “cerebro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024